Is it a kidney stone or is my pain Crohn’s-related?

Now I am really confused and frustrated. I still have this terrible pain in my right side, and it feels exactly like a kidney stone, but the urologist said today that my kidneys looked good and that the pain was not coming from there. Two weekends ago, I went to the urgent care facility because of this pain and they did a CT scan. The doctor there was a bit wishy-washy and told me that there was a stone in the kidney but there shouldn’t be any pain. He diagnosed me with a kidney stone, gave me a prescription for the pain and sent me on my way. And as usual, I left and then thought of all the questions that I should have asked, for example, how big was the stone? They said that there was blood in my urine and thought that one might have already passed. But the pain kept up, so on Friday I went to my general practice doctor. He looked at my scan and said that there was a stone in the kidney but he didn’t seem so sure that it would be causing all of this pain. It comes and goes, and is sometimes very sharp like a knife, and sometimes more dull but still hurts. Sometimes it doesn’t hurt at all. He gave me a referral to a urologist. I had called the urologist this morning but they had no appointments. However, they said that they can look at my scan to see if it is urgent or not. So when I called to get the status on that the woman told me the doctor thought that it wasn’t my kidney that is causing all this pain.

It is so frustrating because it seems like I am always having all this pain and no one knows why or what it’s from, and it feels like they don’t really care. Like the burning hot pain that I have every now and then near my C-section scar – no one knows what that is from either. I am suspecting that it was from the colonoscopy that I had in August because the pain started just after that was done. After the colonoscopy, I started Asacol (mesalamine) enemas and originally thought that it was from the medicine, but the pain has continued on and off since then. And now I have this new pain in my side. I want to just ignore it and hope that it goes away, but my sister, the nurse, insists that I don’t since it has been keeping me awake at night and been making life pretty difficult. I hope that it is not my colon closing up. I hope that it is something easy to fix.

I did as my sister wanted and called my GP again. He is really nice and spent a while talking with me on the phone about the matter. He thinks that it is a stone (because he saw it in the scan) and feels as long as the pain is getting better not to worry. If it keeps up, I will go back. I am so glad that my GP cares and is willing to help me out. His name is Dr. Kenneth Stanley and he is in Pearland, Texas. He even brings his laptop into the room and verifies, via a software program, that there are no interactions with medicines. This is what technology is for; to help us humans do a better job.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kelly R

Kelly is a mechanical engineer working in Houston,Texas where she lives with her husband and daughter. She has had Crohn's disease for more than half her life. She was diagnosed right after her freshman year in...read more